The 10 Best Shopping Apps to Compare Prices

Not sure if you're getting the best price available while shopping this Black Friday? These barcode-scanning apps will take the stress out of comparison shopping this holiday season.

While contestants on The Price is Right might be able to guess the price of pretty much any item within pennies, in the real world, price-comparison apps do the work for you.

These services let you know if the item before you is a deal or no deal before you make a costly mistake. When standing before a shelf of rapidly selling must-have gifts, there's no need to phone a friend frantically to make sure you're getting the lowest price possible; your phone can tell you.

It's a welcome relief since at this time of year stores are filled with enough flashing lights and screaming crowds to turn a holiday shopping trip into a full-on family feud right there in the mall.

For the past few holiday seasons, these apps have been saving shoppers the trouble of searching for a deal online before driving to local stores to see if they can beat it. When out shopping, 86 percent of shoppers consult their smartphones, according to Shopatron's Retailer eCommerce Study. Over half of them are looking to compare prices, but they also want some extras, like product reviews.

The latest price-comparison apps are ringing in new features that will spread holiday cheer. There are apps to help the tech-deficient choose a gift for the tech-addicted, lighten the load of loyalty cards, predict prices and product releases to minimize buyer's (and receiver's) remorse, and offer up rewards.

Price-comparison apps merely need to snap a barcode and perform a search to turn out all of the above, making the marketplace crowded. Because we don't want you to start your holiday shopping panic before you've even left an app store, PCMag has found the 10 best apps out there.

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The Find

The Find

(Available on iOS, Android)
Bar-code scan your way to a deal with The Find. This app only locates nearby deals and what's available online, limiting results to only what's useful. You can set price alerts for when items you're interested in hit the sweet spot.